Cross' attorney said the deal was turned down because Cross would have to admit to tampering with evidence for allegedly throwing away the gun.

Investigators are trying to link that gun with the November slaying of Jack Combs.

Wednesday in court the central issue was surveillance video from the liquor store robbery.

"We believe that there was another party responsible for that and that he happened to be on that video, Now, suddenly, it's not available and that certainly hurts the defense case. What we want to know is if video was tampered with by the store owner after we made our request to preserve it," said defense attorney Ramon McGee.

Cross was charged with complicity to murder in that deadly shooting in November.